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Table 1 Protocol of MRI

From: Magnetic Resonance Arthrography, a valuable pre-operative imaging modality in femoro-acetabular impingement

 

FOV

Slice thickness

Matrix

TR

TE

NSA

Conventional MRI

 Axial T1 TSE

14 cm

4 mm

201 × 512

500 ms

10–15 ms

3

 Axial T2 TSE

14 cm

4 mm

201 × 512

4000–5000 ms

110–120 ms

3

 Axial STIR

14 cm

4 mm

201 × 512

4000–5000 ms

110–120 ms

3

 Coronal STIR

14 cm

4 mm

512 × 256

4000–5000 ms

110–120 ms

4

 Sagittal T2

14 cm

4 mm

512 × 256

4000–5000 ms

110–120 ms

3

MR arthrography

 Coronal T1 FAT SAT post-contrast

15 cm

4 mm

512 × 256

450–650 ms

10–16 ms

3

 Axial oblique T1 FAT SAT post-contrast

15 cm

4 mm

512 × 256

450–650 ms

10–16 ms

3

 Sagittal T1 FAT SAT post-contrast

15 cm

4 mm

512 × 256

450–650 ms

10–16 ms

3

  1. TSE turbo-spin echo, STIR short T1 inversion recovery, FAT SAT fat saturation, FOV field of view, TR repetition time, TE echo time, NSA number of signal averages